On the side of the clinic that faces Poplar, there is a blind man sitting on a bundle of something and he is rather unkempt. He wears a stocking cap even though it is late summer/early fall. He has a small dented copper bowl that sits beside him. His hope is that sighted people will toss-in a spare coin. When he hears the sound of coins hitting the copper, he shouts some line from Oedipus Rex. His favorite lines are:
"Riddles -- all you can say are riddles, murk and darkness."
"I have already. The truth with all its power lies inside me."
"What will come will come. Even if I shroud it all in silence."
"True, it is not your fate to fall at my hands."
When the afternoon sets-in, he can be found leaning back, and pressing his head against the wall, and tilting his face toward the murky sun amid the haze of the city. He has a small portable cd player that repeats the same songs as he sits silently. REM's "Everybody Hurts," Pearl Jam's "Daughter," Bob Dylan's "Simple Twist of Fate," Judy Garland's "Somewhere over the Rainbow," and Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City," and a song from Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutte.
At the end of the day, he shuffles to the back of the Waffle place to get a free waffle, proceeds to Ray's for a pint, then to the back of the church where he is allowed to sleep in the mud room.
In your next blog, you should state specifically where you live. The apartment number, etc. Also, you should have your character choose one of the above lines, or pieces of several lines, or a piece of one line and let it/them linger in your character's mind somehow. Also your character should be part of the above scene in some way.
